Samsung, LG, Sony and Sharp have all brought out 8K TV with Samsung beginning to ship Q900R series, LG their latest 88-inch 8K OLED TV, Sony showed off a prototype at the CES earlier this year and Sharp is already selling 8K TVs in Japan. Although 8K TV is out we still do not…
The owner of UK Café chain Patisserie Valerie has halted trading in its shares and suspended its CEO and announced that tax authorities have petitioned to wind it up, amid “ significant and potentially fraudulent” accounting irregularities. Luke Johnson, chairman of Patisserie Holdings, who bought and floated PizzaExpress said it was yesterday notified of accounting…
Microsoft is investing $200m in Grab, as it seeks to encourage the use of its technology among ride-hailing services around the world. Singapore based Grab has attracted investors like Japan’s Softbank who will invest $500m apart from Microsoft. Microsoft in the past invested in Uber in 2015 and partnered with India’s Ola two years later.…
The world’s largest social network, Facebook has launched its unique video calling device dubbed the portal, hoping the new voice controlled hardware will help to retain billions of its users relying on the app to stay in touch with friends and family. The portal using artificial intelligence will let users make video calls as they…
Regulator Ofcom said “an auction of frequencies, for the next generation of mobile phone networks has raised £1.36bn with Vodafone, EE, O2 and Three all winning the bandwidth needed for the future 5G mobile internet services and faster connections which is expected to be launched in 2020. Ofcom auctioned two spectrum bands 3.4 GHz, which…
Top 100 brand list Apple, Amazon and Google are the three most valuable global brands in a top 100 list with Facebook at 9, Chanel at 23,Subar Jaguar Land Rover at 78, followed by Mini at 90, Spotify at 92, Burberry at 94, Johnnie Walker at 97, Hennessy at 98, Nintendo at 99 and Subaru…
Mukesh Ambani, India’s richest man, has spent £25bn building up his telecoms company Reliance Jio – the biggest private sector investment with over 200m Indian phone users taking advantage of the competition, as he fights for dominance in the second-largest telecoms market by user numbers. Most of the money was spent by giving away free…
The 2018 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to American scientist James P Allison and Japanese researcher Tasuku Honjo “ for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation”. The discovery was made by two Medicine Laureates by taking advantage of the immune system’s ability to attack…
George Magnus and economist questions whether China can continue to keep all its balls in the air as it tries to reconcile the needs of a market economy with the criticisms of a one-party state. His book Red Flag looks at the four traps that the party is trying to avoid –currency ( renminbi),…
Japanese carmaker Toyota has been granted a patent that describes a car that is capable of flying. The car is described to have wheels with rotor blades, which would allow it to take off vertically. Each of the wheels will have an electric motor fed by a system that would generate enough electric power to drive…